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Dear List Members Due to demand for late abstract submissions for the First International Conference on e-Social Science, the deadline has now been extended to midnight (GMT) Monday 7th February. The conference will be held at Manchester Conference Centre, Manchester, UK on the 22nd-24th June 2005 and topics of interest include – Case studies of e-social science in practice Studies of (e-)research and (e-)social science research practices The benefits and challenges of large scale collaborative research Enhancing existing social science research methods through e-social science Innovation in research methods through e-social science Socio-technical issues in the development of e-social science research methods Ethical issues and challenges in the collection, integration, sharing and analysis of sociological data New sources and forms of sociological data Standards for metadata, ontologies, annotation, curation, etc Middleware for data collection, sharing and integration Tools for data mining, visualisation, analysis, modelling and collaborative research Understanding requirements for research tools and middleware We would like to take this opportunity to encourage further abstract submissions for full papers, short papers, workshops / tutorials and posters. We are especially keen for those starting out in e-social science research to submit abstracts for posters and short papers. Also we would encourage post graduate researchers to submit their research in the field of e-social science as a poster. We require poster abstracts to be 200 – 300 words and paper, workshop and tutorial abstracts to be 1000 – 1500 words. If you have any further questions regarding the conference or the submission procedure please visit our website http://www.ncess.ac.uk/events/conference/ or contact me directly. Best wishes Gillian Sinclair Dr Gillian Sinclair Programme Manager ESRC National Centre for e-Social Science (NCeSS) University of Manchester Dover Street Building Dover Street Manchester UK M13 9PL Tel: 0161 275 1380 Email: [log in to unmask] Website: http://www.ncess.ac.uk News mailing list: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/E-SOCIAL-SCIENCE-NEWS